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45 Times This Instagram Account Tastefully Called Out Corporate Greed (New Pics)
Work stories are a common topic of complaint and discussion, as people need to vent after dealing with all the worst humanity has to offer. Nearly everyone has that one just or manager that just naming causes a pit to form in their stomachs.
This Instagram account shares the challenges and difficulties people face in the modern labor market. From exploitative policies to tyrannical managers, workers often get the short end of the stick and have to suffer the results of corporate greed and economic mismanagement. So upvote the most poignant points as you scroll through and comment your own labor market horror stories below.
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One of the main causes of all this suffering is that actual employees are not involved in planning company policy nor sharing in its profits. Many of these posts highlight the cases where a company will make record income and then turn around and fire its workers, cut sick days, or limit pay. In a tight labor market, bosses rely on the fact that people may struggle to find a new job so they won’t quit even as conditions worsen.
One proposal suggested primarily by workers is more ownership in the company they work at. Unsinspiringly named employee ownership, the idea is that each employee would own a stake in the company they work at. If the company does well, the employee would also benefit directly, not at the discretion of managers. Even further, certain decisions could be voted on, limiting upper management's ability to use abusive policies. So how does it work in practice? Quite well.
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Dawn Marie 2 years ago
I quit public school teaching after 25 years. It was not the kids, 1st grade, they were great. The parents had no idea what happens in a classroom. They are better informed ñow after the pandemic, but now multiply that by 20-35. The biggest issues was admin. It was getting to be more testing than teaching and always teaching to the test in April. No more teachable moments. Yes, the money sucked, but I didn't get into teaching for the money. I wanted to make a difference and be absolute sure at least those I had that year WOULD learn to read and could add and subtract. I was also a mother, father, nurse, therapist, babysitter, clothier, hairdresser, janitor...........
A study put together by the Harvard Business Review found that most companies that operated an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) reported greater financial success for their workers as well as faster growth, relative to other, similar companies that do not have an ESOP. Surprisingly, given how much rich people run away from taxes, ESOPs are actually given tax benefits in the United States. For example, Businesses can deduct contributions to ESOPs from corporate income taxes.
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Colin Matthews 2 years ago
Amen i used to run big box retail. Treat people like adults and it all works well
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TonyTee 2 years ago (edited)
Actions speak louder than words, seeing is believing. Anyone can talk out their a**. Elon Musk is another one, if he ever does this 3 more ghosts are gonna come back to life
Luna Crow 2 years ago
Yeah, he says all kinds of things, and then later changes his mind. Also, what kind of vaguery is "to unify humanity?" 🤔
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over it already 2 years ago
I'm thinking he felt out-done and left out after his ex-wife took half his $ and started giving it away. She has and continues to do great work. You could knock me over with a feather if he ever does even half of what that statement above says.
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Paulsible deniability 2 years ago
Poor guy will have to get by on "just" $60,000,000,000 (Donating 51% "majority" would still leave him 49%).
MagicJacket 2 years ago
Yeah, like all these rich pigs that say this, he will donate it to a charity he founds, his own program, where it is highly unregulated and probably 1-3% of it actually goes to anything good. The rest goes to overhead and he can write off almost the whole thing and not pay taxes on his fortune. This isn't altruism in ANY way. He is doing it for tax breaks and for people to think he is human. He isn't.
Beelzebub 2 years ago
Jokes on you, he said he'd donate $124 billion to FIGHT Climate Change.
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Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago
"Unify"? That'll never happen. Our species is on the way out.
Monica Michelle 2 years ago
Ok so these headlines are super misleading. Often this means $ goes into their own foundations which gives them.... insane tax breaks
David Shaw 2 years ago
'The majority' of his fortune still leaves him with more money than some nations...
April Pickett 2 years ago
He has the money to have a private mega-yacht built and to move a bridge blocking its exit from the building dock. Of course, he'll put the bridge back.
Rachel Grig 2 years ago
Three ghosts? I feel like this is a reference to something, a movie maybe, but I don't get it. Heeelp.
Omima mimi miki 2 years ago
F**k Bezos - He could save literally countries and restore c**p that is happening here on earth but rather he wants to build c**p fro space to control weather.... the sci fi show never ends! take me back to ferngully please
Mental Liberals 2 years ago
Donate it to something useful - like world hunger, poverty, clean water, food...
Belynda Young 2 years ago
At this point there is no unification of humanity. What will be done is the silencing of humanity.
Adam Belaire 2 years ago
Probably added the stipulation that he has to be dead for 100 years before that money gets donated.
In general, US companies have a lot of incentives to pursue employee stock ownership plans, but a combination of personal greed and lack of knowledge holds many back from embracing employee ownership. If a manager can make a bit more at the cost of all employees making less, most will simply choose to keep the profit. An ESOP also takes some power away from upper management, which leaders may not like.
While the idea of an ESOP may create the image of some sort of hybrid democracy-corporate entity, the reality is that even the high-functioning companies listed in the study earlier tend to not be majority employee-owned. In most cases, ESOPs hold between 10-40% of control of a company, enough to protect the workers and ensure that profits do trickle downwards, without compromising the control of upper management. But, as older siblings and team leaders around the world know, democracy can be frustrating to deal with, so ESOPs still remain uncommon.
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Neil 2 years ago
Nice to see some responsibility going to the top. However, the $49M pay cut being POSSIBLE suggests a secondary issue. How about we eliminate the minimum wage and replace it with a minimum percent? For example, the lowest paid employee (including contractors) can be paid no less than 2% of the highest paid (including wages, bonuses, options, etc.).
However, this research brings up an interesting conundrum for governments. Studies show that companies that operate an ESOP or similar scheme if it’s outside the US, tend to grow faster than those that don’t. On the whole, setting aside individual workers, this is good for the entire economy. The only thing keeping both the economy as a whole and the welfare of employees back is the greed of a few at the top.
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Fish Fingers 2 years ago
I've worked a four day week for years (long days so full-time hours), and the way my days off line up mean I get a 5 day weekend every three weeks. The job is ok, but the time off is GLORIOUS!
And to managers that remain unconvinced, companies that use an ESOP also have significantly better worker engagement, retention, and productivity. After all, if your hard work translates directly into more income, you will work harder, this is so common sense that a child can figure it out, even if many managers can’t. Participation plans resulted in three to four times faster growth in companies with an ESOP, compared to those that don’t have one. Those sorts of numbers in a startup would be considered phenomenal.
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Omima mimi miki 2 years ago
WOW good to know ;) I want to sue....... Amazon - just for the heck of it...i 'm sure i can find a reason.
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David H 2 years ago (edited)
Numbers are not correct. The 8.8b was operating income, not net income. Operating income gross income minus operating costs, but that is not the final net income. In 2022 they pulled in 6 billion in profits or so. Next, they have 41k employees, not 35 k. So the total for a 125k increase would be 5.1B of the 6b in profits. Now 2022 profits were down 6% from 2021, which was down 8% from 2020. But lastly, BNSF is 100% owned subsidiary of Berkshire-Hathaway, and Buffet himself is actually involved in, and considers it one of his pet companies, so talk to Warren Buffet about it
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Robert Beveridge 2 years ago
Assuming anyone other than she and the person who ran the test saw the results, this is as open-shut a HIPAA violation as it gets. She will have no shortage of lawyers willing to do this for no money down and a cut of the large judgment.
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DarkViolet 2 years ago
"Your job is more important"? Than..........one's family? Riiiiiiiiiight. 🫤
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Jay Son 2 years ago
Meanwhile they try everything in their (legal) power to not having to do that or make it as difficult as possible for the employee. My sister was (still is) sick for a long time and went through hell. She got paid, but honestly, she'd better been off just taking her leave. But, then she wouldn't have gotten the help she needed from the government. The law is a good idea, but it needs better execution. One of the biggest problems is that the doctors who decide on your health, are basically paid for by the company you with for, your own practitioner isn't listened to.
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George Comas 2 years ago
Competitive shopping!? Compete to "earn" the money and then compete to spend it. Wtf?
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Kat Min 2 years ago
I do think it's important to come into the office now and then, to connect, exchange information and network. The watercooler conversations are important and don't really happen in scheduled zoom calls. I've been on the receiving end of work that was organized in homeoffice only by newly hird people. Without the option to just quickly and inofficially ask more experineced ccolleagues the results were terrible. BUT not coming in, every gorram day reduces stress expenses and our collective carbon footprint. It's idiotic to force people to come back full time. There is a middle ground!
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Isaac Harvey 2 years ago
The public perception of a system should be determined by the quality of life of its lowest-paid people, not that of its highest-paid people.
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George Comas 2 years ago
Social security is the most solvent government program in the history of the United States of America. Congress keeps using it for other stuff and now it's time to pay, so we all go suck rotten eggs.
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Littlemiss 2 years ago
I'm guessing the suits pay keeps moving forward, whilst their employees pay goes backwards to accommodate the increases.
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Raven Sheridan 2 years ago
Send your boss a picture of you eating your Thanksgiving meal and giving them the finger.
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Ima Manimal 2 years ago
Better yet, forbid any bank bailout that gives its greedy executives bonuses.
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Thomas Klobucnik 2 years ago
Same problem as public schools. 20 years ago Chicago had 3 times as many administrators as teachers. Much worse now.
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And i was like WTF!! 2 years ago
I went to USA in 2012. on student exchange proggrame and i was there for 4 months. I got an opportunity to stay, but i decided i will come back to Europe. Best decision i ever made, i would hate to beg for a day off or to dedicate my whole life just to work work work
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Barbara Kayton 2 years ago
Years ago, I worked, as a temp, for a company that was created so it could be contracted by insurances companies to handle patient claims. Most of the workers of this contract company were themselves contractors or temps. One of the claims handlers told me that there instructions were to deny, deny, deny, and then deny some more, with the medical doctor coming back multiple times with masses of paperwork and phone call. When the doctor finally “screamed loud enough” they might approve it. If the doctor didn’t give up because of all the BS. Basically murder for profit by insurance companies, and they didn’t even have the guts to do it themselves. They subcontracted out - via subcontracted companies.
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Raven Sheridan 2 years ago
I suspect that b******t surveys are also a cause of "discontent". 🤔
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Ima Manimal 2 years ago (edited)
At this point, if the aliens showed up, I would consider it a rescue mission
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Isaac Harvey 2 years ago
If paying the people you (supposedly) rely on risks making an entire system collapse, it deserves to collapse.
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And i was like WTF!! 2 years ago
Let me fix it for you: I dont want to pay decent, living wage so people dont want to work for me but i will complain anyways
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Riche White 2 years ago
Yes, let's see some of these so called skilled people pick fruit and vegetables all without damaging them. It's harder than they think
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Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
I worked a job once in the 80's and kept a tall cup filled with coffee at my machine. The owner saw it and hollered, hollered at me saying "get rid of that, we drink coffee on our coffee break". I looked around me and saw that nearly every other person in the area had a can of Coke at their machine so I asked him, how about Coke? Nobody clapped. I was kinda a pariah after that, but he never messed with me over my coffee again.
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sofacushionfort 2 years ago
Santa tolerated a hostile work environment for years, then expected Rudolph to be his team player.
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Geoffrey Scott 2 years ago
Not sure how that works. SIL joined Army after no Criminal Justice jobs were available. They did NOT cover existing student debt.
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Jared Robinson 2 years ago
I'm at the hospital making sure my insides aren't leaking out into my other insides. please go f**k yourself.
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Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Illegal. Call the Department of Labor. While a company can hold you accountable for violations of its policies, it can NOT do so by taking away any part of your wages.
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Suzy Creamcheese 2 years ago
You're an idiot. If the US defaults, the global economy crashes. It isn't just the people you hate who'll suffer.
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You're an idiot. If the US defaults, the global economy crashes. It isn't just the people you hate who'll suffer.
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